Cold
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Cool.
Slowly the army slipped
listen to the footsteps mumbling
and a crow cawing
insulting.
A plain was disposing
martial rhythms and marches
Wrecks abandoned
Bayonets Ammunition and dirty medals
heads lolling soldiers.
twigs and snow now mush
steppe and sparse trees around
There was nothing
More.
remember the cold
And the bodies we left
Back to freeze
crumbs on the path
of a war that had not started.
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the shots were
Schioppi the sudden chill of silence
Bang! Bang! Bang!
waiting for the enemy and the leader got up
Together
a play, a dance
looked over
searching
desiring
the enemy.
front of us only the mist
The steppe and cold
Nothing More.
Only three more bodies left behind
Brave men are tired
I cried my being
Coward.
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The night descended slowly
mocking fell beyond any horizon
dense fog
sticky slimy and cold
I never saw no stars
The sky was still black
There was no direction on the march
Next
Next
Everywhere was
Next
many died during the night
But nobody saw them in black
And no trace of the moon
One night I dreamed
To be anyone.
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Odor marc
Perhaps grappa
Hidden in the folds of his uniform dirty and
fluffy
A long drink in exchange for a blast of hot
And some 'clouding of
memories
A sun in the sky
Colors
Voices Of Women And Children
Another area beneath the soles that were disposing
And the cold
And the cold
Another sip
Not to mention
and return
walking.
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I had been assigned to the rear
I saw a long green snake forward
the infinite plain of a foreign land
I knew that in basically there was a beginning
A head a top
General
slowly forward to all
Voices
Murmurs
General cut through the cold air hunger
Before any
Solitaire in blue overcoat
Regal spotted on the back of a mighty
In the cold
I had been assigned to the rear
And I saw nothing
If the cold
And the long snake
What seemed endless
Towards nothing.
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I was young
It was almost certain
I seem to remember a face
blacks hair and a look
musicians in a room overflowing with flowers
Laughter and candles to illuminate a sunset
clink of glasses and long skirts
the night coming down over the city
His voice was soft and feminine
Whisperer
Words that no longer exist
Not even in my Perhaps memories
have never been spoken
And the cold serves me
still dream
I wanted to know
Again
Your taste
Your name.
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We stopped in the village
Some home
A small church with onion domes
A trough filled with rainwater
Frozen and dirty
Silence
We tried everything
It did not take
A piece of dry bread
of Spirit
A retains
Only dust
The sound of the wind on the road
The open windows
curtains shook as ghosts
Memories of a life gone
came a scream
Repeated
The General had ordered to advance
leaving behind the village and its people
That death seemed to stare
From chairs
From the tables
From beds
From the doors
slamming
Almost applaud
our departure.
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Some had just passed noon
The sun was hidden by clouds in the sky
And the fog was gray
grayer than usual
Witnesses and other evidence
Reports imaginative
A stampede
cries and cries
Panic
The enemy?
The enemy has arrived?
shook a buddy
I realized that I was sleeping
Walking
eyes closed
Step by step
More screams
courses following the green snake
Fila winding of two soldiers joined
File repeated forgotten men
A crossroads
scared money all around
A small clearing
not larger than the body that lay nestled
Blood
As can be red blood on the gray of a winter
A body torn
Bits of flesh and limbs face deformed
Ripped
Devoured
An entry wound
I caught the sound
And I was afraid
More cold
said Wolf And Man
Wolf man
Werewolf
Legends of a steppe that had not run.
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was one morning when I saw him
not sleep and watched a crow hopping around
There was be a friend of mine
Carried away by night
He heard hooves
the puff and the earth tremble
Shadow
Huge in the dawn that was not checked
The horse took a few steps and stopped
The man went down with a leap and a dark coat stirs furious
Step
Step
yet decided where the raven feasted the eyes of a soldier
One of my fellow
Maybe a friend of mine
A human
bend over and I saw the shadow cast out
annoyed
The frightened bird
I thought
The Death
E 'come to take the soldier
His soul
take her away from this place senseless
Then he heard a murmur
recognized the voice mumbled
Emphasis Islander
Annoying
Including the words
The rhythm of prayer
No more praying for a corpse
Not for themselves prayed in that place
But perhaps General did not know
And a little farther
A few steps away from me
General knelt and prayed
I wanted to believe had not seen him cry
The my daily
Despair.
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A melody A song that became litany
Entries distant provinces
dialects mixed with an unknown language that there seemed
die, never more pronounced
And the words went out into tears chorus
Beyond the meanings
Sounds, wrong notes and tears wet
A single tone which slid on the column
Green Snake soldiers
An identical
emotion that was repeated
is continually renewed
invocation prayer
A petition a triumphal march
Beyond the pain and fear
Moving forward
Step by step
Cradled by the Music mumbling
Perhaps
A lullaby.
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listened to the screech and crash into the glass jackets
in bags and counted
One, two, three,
Four, five, six,
One, two, three,
Four, five, six,
A , two, three,
Four, five, six,
Seven
Seven
Seven
Seven
hours, days, weeks
Months
corpses left on the beach
How glasses after un'ubriacatura
Bible repeating numbers
One after another
My mind faded
Over time
And I walked
Leaving tracks in the snow
blanket of snow
Deleted snow.
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Voices
Ringing
meandering along the Snake Tales
creatures hidden in the mist
In the blades of dead grass
the treetops
Among the dead branches
In the eyes of crows
In the snow too dirty
In the cold
in hunger and fear
It was the young little priest
baptizing and confessing
While he performed the last rites in a hurry
is reassured and preached
He begged
In the name Lord of
He said
We proceeded
dead in
Among the legends
The silences
Landscapes properties
The silhouettes in the haze
Castles
Knights
Demons
Wolves
And the Baba Yaga
The Baba Yaga.
Baba Yaga.
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had just checked the dawn
The sun was hidden in the clouds
In gray
In the fog and cold
The march was resumed
Slowly
One day he repeated
Yesterday Today Tomorrow
But that day something happened
I saw him get
Maybe I was the first
raises his arm to indicate and I yelled
Everyone around me turned and saw him
I was not dreaming
No mirage
My madness was the same madness all
A flutter
Delicate above us
A flight diverted
The albatross accompanied us
We saw him and greeted him
Happy not to be alone anymore
As a sign
A promise
A vague hope
The sea was far
But the albatross we had chosen
And I watched him
cried an old joy
I thought Forgot
swayed slowly
I remember white
Almost carefree
In gray
In the cold
Then the shot
Sudden
A scream
More screams
A stroke
Lonely as the albatross
fell
Fast
Heavy
No noise on the dirty snow
of land and its little blood
The funeral couch
kept staring at the sky
For days
Looking for a spot of white
In gray everywhere
vain
The death was not
The game of chess
had already been played
And not by us soldiers
already lost.
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